Mainstream news media outlets can influence the opinions and attitudes of their audience based on how they frame information. This framing also to polarization. Presently there exists partisan controversies state-level legislation in United States regarding Critical Race Theory (CRT). We examined reporting related CRT using Meta’s metrics platform, CrowdTangle tracked Facebook posts by from Jan...

Evidence from monetary VARs suggests that in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. impact of shocks on real house prices is about three to five times as large GDP. Although these trade-offs are not manifestly unfavorable, light differences magnitudes GDP fluctuations, a policy leaning against former would inevitably entail significant losses latter. I use identified order explore corresponding associated ...

Echo chambers, i.e., situations where one is exposed only to opinions that agree with their own, are an increasing concern for the political discourse in many democratic countries. This paper studies the phenomenon of political echo chambers on social media. We identify the two components in the phenomenon: the opinion that is shared, and the “chamber” (i.e., the social network) that allows the...

Should inflation targeting involve some leaning against the wind? Sweden provides a case study, since the Riksbank has been leaning against the wind quite aggressively since 2010, stating concerns about risks associated with household indebtedness. The cost is high of this policy, in the form of inflation much below the target and a higher unemployment, arguably as much 1.2 percentage points hi...